Article: For Better Or Worse: Joe Mauer

[ThePuck]

Let's see......... .326 at the end of the day on September 25, to .319 after the next and last 7 games is .......... .007. Seven points. I am not understanding this fuzzy arithmetic. You are a professed and talented stat man. No biggy. Yes. My answer is yes, I think anyone that has a fire and competitive edge about them, and it is well documented that Joe Mauer does in everything he "plays", would be feeling pressure to complete the surge and take the title. The sweetest title is the one you just won. It was about the only excitement for the Twins the whole season, to have Joe to watch down the stretch with a possible 4th title coming with his batting surge. Your posts on this thread look like just another example of defending someone that doesn't need defended. I still think Joe will be better next year.

 

I apologize...I went from the results after the 7th game, not the 8th game...that is totally my bad. I stand by the rest of what I had written though. Still don't see it as wilting. Still don't think he felt the pressure

[70charger]

How did he do the last 7 games.... after he was up to .326 on September 25th, and pressing for the title? That was when the pressure was on. He went "oh" fer five of the games, and 4/23 to slide to .319. I still think he will be better. Is it bad to always think someone with Joe's greatness will always be better? Those 7 games is like someone going 4/23 in the series. Granted, the rest of September got him to where he could be in a pressure situation.

 

 

Are you friggin' kidding me!? This whole idea is so stupid that I can barely get my head around it.

 

1) You're basing your entire argument on 7 damn games? Law of large numbers; small sample size; etc. This is just dumb.

2) You want clutch over consistent? Fine, I'll trade your fantasy team Pablo Sandoval for Joe Mauer straight up.

3) He doesn't wilt under the pressure of batting races because he's, ya know, won three of the damn things.

4) I can't. I'm done.

[h2oface]

Are you friggin' kidding me!? This whole idea is so stupid that I can barely get my head around it.

 

1) You're basing your entire argument on 7 damn games? Law of large numbers; small sample size; etc. This is just dumb.

2) You want clutch over consistent? Fine, I'll trade your fantasy team Pablo Sandoval for Joe Mauer straight up.

3) He doesn't wilt under the pressure of batting races because he's, ya know, won three of the damn things.

4) I can't. I'm done.

 

1. not an argument. i never try to or care to adjust anyone's opinion. just an observation and remembrance.

2. i want clutch and consistent. i want it all. i don't do fantasy. but i believe in dreaming.

3. this race had nothing to do with any other race. it was what it was, and the last seven games are history.

4. you are.

[snepp]

Derp, derpity derp-derp.

[StormJH1]

I have very little confidence that he'll be "better" in 2013 because, folks, 2009 Joe Mauer is not walking through that door anytime soon. It seems more likely that he'll be "worse", but not for performance reasons - the likelihood of him going a whole season without an injury of more than 2 weeks in duration seem relatively low.

 

But if he plays and puts up the usual .300 BA, .800+ OPS and 10 HR's, then so be it. The ink is dry on his contract, and it is what it is. His durability issues and inability to be impact power bat in the middle of the lineup were a tough realization for 2010-12, but by they should be increasingly accepted as fact. That's just his game.

[Shane Wahl]

I can see another two big seasons from Mauer where he outperforms 2012, but underperforms 2009. I would hope those seasons would be 2015 and 2016 when they have finally put the right people around him, but I suspect that 2015 might be the end of the great seasons from Mauer. Good for the rest of the contract, though.